foolish grins
and things unsaid
          ✦
a twinkle in your eye
a playful friend

                    the scent of your cologne
                    the feel of your shirt
                                  ✦
                   audacious jokes
                   a cryptic verse

slow guitar
secret kisses
         ✦
take me into
imagined blisses


                     "What are these?"
                      I guess that's my cue
                                  ✦
                      these are all the reasons
                      that I love you

I watch you walk away slowly
I do not get what 's wrong with me
I see you and you see me too
If I had courage, what would we do
It doesn't matter 'cause now your gone
I wish you never came along
You're really messing with my head
You're the guy whose shirt is red
You caught my eye pretty fast
My fantasy cannot last
You are just some guy on the beach
Who is just out of my reach

All this empty space
of places you've once been
taunting me with your memory
reminding me of your presence
realizing I'm the last one here
left with all this empty space.

Misunderstanding is everywhere I look
My entire life is starting to feel like a book
Not a book that has just begun
But a book that is well overdone
I ponder what holds for me in the next chapter
Certainly not a happily ever after
Oh, but look there's a twist
Something so easily missed
For my life is not a book
It is a sharp ***** hook
A hook plunged deep in my soul
Reeling me out for what life beholds
I am not ready to be on my own
I do not trust myself to be all alone
And what happens when you run out of line for your hook
It's the end of your story, the end of your book

Don't try to rain on my parade
because I keep an umbrella packed.

Success
is
achieving
the
future
you
envisioned
for
yourself

foolish grins
and things unsaid
          ✦
a twinkle in your eye
a playful friend

                    the scent of your cologne
                    the feel of your shirt
                                  ✦
                   audacious jokes
                   a cryptic verse

slow guitar
secret kisses
         ✦
take me into
imagined blisses


                     "What are these?"
                      I guess that's my cue
                                  ✦
                      don't you see
                      these are all the reasons
                      that I love you

I don't understand how to feel
I don't get what is your deal
I thought things were going well
I guess I was just too blind to tell
Maybe I am overthinking things
Was this just a high school fling
Maybe tomorrow things will change
This whole event has just been strange
Was I getting mixed signals
With someone like you I guess I’d figure
Well I can only hope that I am wrong
But only for you will my heart long.

The sky lays in elegant shades
blues, blacks, and lovely old grays
spotted and speckled with bright little stars
letting you know they're never too far
you sit and ponder at what lies above
an infinite universe abundant in love
full of surprise is the vast unknown
what a unique place to call your home.

You reminded me so much of a rose
Such elegance did you pose
Beautiful, lush, and full of surprise
How I wish I had known about your demise
Don't be silly, not that of thine
But the one you had in mind
For me, of course, what were you thinking
Now I am the ship that's slowly sinking
Time has passed, and now I'm gone
You sit there quietly, oh-so fond
and then that's when it came
Swift and sudden as the rain
The vicious guilt of what you had done
and now it's you that has to run
No matter how far or fast you go
You will never escape your vengeful foe
A wilted rose you have become
Did you picture me so dumb
I've come back to haunt you from the grave
Do you have what it takes to stand tall and brave
The answer is no
So far away you shall go
The life of a rose is not forever
or were you too busy to remember
Your time has finally come to an end
Now you make the perpetual descent
Into the confinement where you belong
Without a soul to accompany you along
Your story was a great one, but sad to be told
And there it sits sullenly for time to behold

I hear this sound so I look up above
my initial thought is that it's a dove
I look closer and see that it's not
it's an airplane, not what I thought
I close my eyes for just a second
then it's gone, vanished, I reckon
I search the sky for that metal beast
but it's not in sight to say the least
up into the clouds it's gone
singing its little airplane song

Lonely little yellow flag
how can you make me feel so sad
reminding me of the past
I wonder if it's meant to last

Dancing with the wind in sight
you used to make me feel delight
reminded me of who he was
but now there's just a lonely fuzz

Lone yellow flag.

There once was a peasant who was in love with a prince
She was battered, tired, and worn down
He was handsome, wealthy, and well round
She attended his royal ball
She even dressed up like a doll
But he did not notice her
She did not present grandeur
Their love did not prevail.

Eyes blue
like the Atlantic
and we're going down
like the Titanic

You and me
Were not meant to be
Like Jack and Rose
From the movie

I fly 33000 feet above you
moonlight dances across
patches of water down below
Illuminated veins
are the guide maps
through the landscape
of your heart.

Get more
Get more
Apps on your phone
they'll distract you from the fact
you're gonna die alone

A blank page, a story untold
the salty air and sun kissed cheeks,
the murmuring sea whispers many tales
all are secrets for my heart to hold

If I stay, I wonder what  I would find
happy old couples in their beach houses
hidden trails deep in campgrounds
perhaps something new and one of a kind

A story ends and a new one starts
good food,  sun-soaked relaxation, and sand
memories relieved and new ones created
all just new chapters I hold in my heart.

I found a tear in my favorite shirt
I do not understand why this hurts
it's just a simple piece of cloth
so why does this feel like such a loss
in this shirt I've been through a lot
pouring tears or deep in thought
I guess there's not much I can do
it's just your shirt, it is not you.

Always the second choice,
never the first
maybe one day
the tables will be reversed.

How do we know when we're in love? Ask yourself the following.

-Does he make you smile?
-Does he make you laugh?
-Do you fall asleep thinking about him?
-Does your heart race when you see him?
-Do you notice his hidden smiles and stolen glances?
-Does he make you happy?

You are not in love
**If you were, you wouldn't  have had to read this to make sure.

I watch the fluorescent flash of the open sign
as I contemplate the meaning of life
Rain starts to pelt down harshly on the windshield
washing away the sign in a colorful stream
Though all else seems to be against it
it continues to flash
I silently will it to pull through
Then the flashing stops as abruptly as it began
I am almost offended
It offered no fight for survival, no retort
        
         The slam of the car door
         and the greasy smell of gas station food
         bring me back to the present

My brother offers the dampened brown paper bag towards me
I take it reluctantly, suddenly at loss for appetite
The ancient truck manages to roar to life yet again

       My eyes relentlessly follow the sign
       as we pull out of the parking lot
       searching for a sign of hope, anything.

As if some higher power had been listening to my innermost thoughts
the sign flickers once or twice more before taking its final breath

I wrote this long letter to you
but then I ripped it all away
I have some thoughts to sort through
I just feel so afraid

The words on paper did not seem right
they seemed so small and dumb
but I all I could do was simply write
yet the right things would not come

I don't really know what I am trying to say
it all makes sense in my head
it's quite difficult and here I lay
thinking of you in my bed

I am an invisible man
You must trust me, this is not a scam
I am an invisible man

I walk unnoticed
and I speak unheard
I am an invisible man

What else can an invisible man do
can he bend over, can he tie a shoe
I am an invisible man

There's so much I wish I could do
I wish I could be seen like you
But I am an invisible man

poetry is so interesting
there can be all  different kinds of poems
happy ones, sad ones, ones about heartache
all cool poems have one thing in common
they all rhyme at the end

blend

There are so many things
that we would throw away
if we were not afraid
that others might pick them up.

I flip page after page

searching for an end to humanity's idiocy

yet this is not a story of brevity

I gaze upon the intricate ink of the yellowing pages

My mind sets into a seemingly perpetual haze

preventing me from truly absorbing the words

I give a silent thank you

For I do not know how I would react

to all of this confounding insanity

I close the book and caress its leather skin

I inhale the ancient smell it offers

A muddled grin crawls across my face

I  feel it spreading through every vessel in my body

The haze has removed itself from my being

A piercing clarity penetrates my soul

Ah, it has finally come

The gates have been opened

The madness flows freely

My pen is running out of ink
I guess I don't have much time to think
there is so much I wish to say
but all these things are in my way
I think back to that summer night
just before we had the fight
it was so perfect then and there
a perfect moment that we shared
things got rocky at the end
but you said we'd still be friends
you and I know what that means
it doesn't call for a pretty scene
all the damage has been done
at least we had those nights of fun.